A brass compass with a red needle pointing toward its heading, glass face and all. Actual navigation is the obvious use, hiking trails and road trips, but it gets just as much work as a metaphor for direction in life, finding your way, staying on course, figuring out what's next.
What 🧭 means
A circular dial with a rim and a tiny loop at the top with a couple of uniformly placed short strokes and a double-edged sharp needle with one side being white and the other, red, within the dial.
The 🧭 Compass emoji refers to a magnetic compass, thus signifying navigation, finding one's way, and a general way of defining one's path or journey (in a metaphorical sense, yes). It also suggests themes such as traveling and being a traveler.
How and when to use it
- If you're posting a picture that ought to have a metaphorical quote/caption that goes along the lines of journeying, you can use 🧭. For instance, "The path may be unknown, but the fire within knows its destination already 🧭".
- While posting or reposting anything that's travel-related, you can invite 🧭 into that caption as well. For example, "My dream Thai trip, here I slide into you just like I slid into a girl's DM who's now my wife 🧭".
- Sometimes, 🧭 can also be used to signify time (sundials). So, if you're posting something that has the mention of 'time' or 'timing' in it, you can use 🧭. Like, "Metro Boomin be my savior, the perfect timing you granted me is here to be savored 🧭".
- Also, pop in the 🧭 emoji into any framework that has the words 'travel', 'traveling', or even 'traveler' in it - "All the world is just a journey and I for one am just another traveler 🧭" (sheesh, the feels).
Other Names
- 🧭 Traveller's Compass
- 🧭 North-South Compass
- 🧭 Compass for Directions
- 🧭 Sundials
- 🧭 Magnetic Compass
- 🧭 Thumb Compass
- 🧭 Base Plate Compass
The lowdown
- Category
- Travel & Places › place-map
- Codepoints
U+1F9ED- Emoji version
- Emoji 11.0
- Shortcodes
:compass:- Keywords
- compass, direction, magnetic, navigation, orienteering
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🧭 Compass or 🎼 Musical Score?
Runs with a crowd
🧭 keeps company in travel emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.